The strange underground noises you are probably hearing right now are created by decent old Henry Ford spinning in his grave because, as a wise Irishman said years ago, the whole world is in a state of chassis.

February nonchalantly rolls in with its annual dose of emotional turmoil, kicking off 2019 with the same destabilizing roller coaster as every year gone by, and every year yet to come. Feeling the cheer?

Maybe the only thing more depressing than day-to-day governing in the Trump era is the prospect of two dozen (give or take) Democrats braying that they are the antidote to the miseries of the Trump era.